Job Title:

Receiver  (Forklift Driver)

FLSA: 

Non-exempt

Position Type:

Full time

Department:

Inbound

Reports to:

Receiver Lead

Core Focus

Unloads and loads customer product, scans product, and places it correctly in warehouse. Maintains a safe and clean work area.  Able to operate various powered equipment lifts throughout the course of the work day while meeting the efficiency expectations of the position.

Job Description

R OLE AND R ESPONSIBILITIES

• Load and unload freight using equipment in an efficient and safe manner.
• Move product to storage areas with proper equipment. 
• Efficiently stack and store the merchandise in the appropriate area.
• Check or count freight for accuracy and/or damage.
• Conduct operations in a manner, which promotes safety.
• Participate in physical inventories, as needed.
• Perform labeling, sorting, wrapping, packing, and repacking.
• Operate equipment safely and efficiently. Equipment to include (but not limited to) stand up forklifts, stand up straddle trucks, walk behinds, pallet jacks, double pallet jacks and radio frequency equipment.
• Report all safety malfunctions on equipment.
• Comply with OSHA standards.
• Must be able to meet production standards.
• Maintain a clean, neat, and orderly work environment.
• Follow attendance policy, show up for work on time and ready to work assigned shift.
• Performs visual and operational vehicle safety inspections and reports any unsafe vehicles to shift supervisor or maintenance personnel.
• Responsible for ensuring that all cases and pallets are properly identified with appropriate labels.
• Performs count/exception on pick slot locations if quantities are less than requested by warehouse management system and related components.
• Secures selected cases and conducts final pallet preparations by wrapping selected load and applying shipping labels.
• Prepares and places assembled case pick pallets and moves assembled pallets from picking areas to a dock door or staging area.
• Observes, reports and corrects (when appropriate) all unsafe and unsanitary conditions that could cause employee and/or customer accidents.